Republicans, particularly elected ones, but quite honestly ALL Americans of every political stripe, would do well to educate themselves on the original intent of the Framers to more accurately understand what the 14th Amendment was actually proposed and ratified for..."Does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!"
Once again, Democrats used to understand this!CR: Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin ripped Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for his response to President Trump’s statement that he plans to issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship.
Ryan claimed the 14th Amendment creates the birthright citizenship and that therefore such an executive order would be unconstitutional.
“There’s been no law passed that conveys birthright citizenship onto illegal aliens. There’s been no Supreme Court decision that definitively confers birthright citizenship onto illegal alien children. Nobody’s a hundred percent certain how this came to be. But everybody seems to be a hundred percent certain that the president can’t fix it. … Well, does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!”
Levin replayed a clip from his show in 2015, in which he laid out the stated purpose of the 14th Amendment and read Senator Jacob Howard’s explanation.
“‘This will not of course include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens … but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship.’ … Is it not plain English? Is he not as clear as can be that it does not include aliens, it does not include foreigners. … The republican basis for citizenship is consent! Consent of the country! You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States.”
“What is the bottom line here? Let’s number this: They wanted to make certain that former slaves would be treated as citizens of the United States, because certain states were still resistant. … They exempted Indians, because Indians still, certainly back then, were often considered citizens of particular tribes. But these actually were very forward-looking individuals. They specifically excluded aliens and foreigners.”
Moreover, the Civil War Amendments, also known as the Reconstruction Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves by banning the archaic institution of slavery, defining citizenship to include these newly cemented freemen, and ensuring their voting rights along with all Americans. It is a farce and an offense to pretend that the same specific amendment bestowing the privilege of citizenship upon a freed people brought here not of their own accord (and the generations springing from them) would also somehow apply to the children of those illegally entering our country of their own volition!
Pretty common sense stuff to understand, but for politicians who'd muddy the waters and sell our sovereignty down the river for damn-near slave labor and illegal votes.
Unlike Obama, Trump's not proposing to rewrite law via an executive order. On the contrary, he's proposing to ENFORCE ORIGINAL INTENT backed up by an executive order. Lot of difference there that the leftist media won't tell you, and that some Republicans, like the Speaker, don't seem to understand.
Perhaps Levin's further discussion with Daniel Horowitz will shed much needed light on how birthright citizenship is not lawful, as well as why Trump is right to end it...
Related link: Nothing, not even birthright citizenship, trumps consent of the nation
